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  • C02F1/00—Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
  • C02F1/52—Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage by flocculation or precipitation of suspended impurities
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• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C02—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
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  • C02F1/5245—Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage by flocculation or precipitation of suspended impurities using inorganic agents using basic salts, e.g. of aluminium and iron
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C02—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
  • C02F—TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE
  • C02F1/00—Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage
  • C02F1/52—Treatment of water, waste water, or sewage by flocculation or precipitation of suspended impurities
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Definitions

• the invention relates to a precipitating chemical and a method of chemical precipitation and application of the precipitating chemical and method, for use in the treatment of dissolved and/or suspended organic and/or inorganic substances and particles in liquids, preferably hydrocarbons in water.
• particles and compounds are formed of mineral and/or rock particles, heavy metals, salts, phosphorous compounds, alcohols, lipids, aromatics and cellulose, said particles and compounds being present, to a great degree, in for example sewage and waste water from i.a. homes and industrial enterprises.
• the precipitation process is activated preferably by means of acids or alternatively by means of bases.
• the most common precipitating chemicals are based on iron, aluminium and lime, cf. WO 8605826 and JP 56158194. These chemicals are often added to waste water in combination with a so-called flocculant, often consisting of a mixture of bentonite of the smectite type and a polymer, cf. SE 501216, US 5204007 and JP 56158194. in some cases the precipitation is activated without the use of the above-mentioned type of precipitating chemical as the acidity of the waste water is adjusted to a specific pH-value or to within a certain pH range, cf. US 5204007 and JP 56158194,
• the object of the invention is to provide a precipitating chemical which is well suited, when activated, for separating preferably hydrocarbons from water, but also for separating dissolved and/or suspended organic and/or inorganic substances and particles from other waste liquids, including substances and particles in for example sewage and waste water from i.a. homes and industrial enterprises, such substances and particles being formed for example of mineral and/or rock particles, heavy metals, salts, phosphorous compounds, alcohols, lipids, aromatics and cellulose.
• the use of said precipitating chemical provides a novel, more simple and more efficient way of treating waste liquids, which does not have the drawbacks that known purification processes and purification techniques suffer from.
• the precipitating chemical may be made according to the following method, or unitary recipe, and preferably in the following orders
• the degree of purification is a measure in per cent of how much of an initial contamination, for example hydrocarbons, is removed by means of the purification process, this measure being expressed in number of parts by weight of for example hydrocarbons removed per million parts by weight of water, and wherein the measurement, or the concentration, , is normally stated in ppm (parts per million).
• the ratio by weight of the dry components bentonite, sodium polyphosphate and poly er lamide in the precipitating chemical is important in order to achieve the best possible degree of purification, which is achieved, according to the, above unitary recipe, in that the ratio by weight of bentonite a sodium polyphosphate : polyacrylamide is 80 s 30 s 1, respectively.
• lignin is a polyphenol in the form of aromatic rings, lignin forming a natural strengthening component in the cell walls of a number of plants, lignin being substantially more resistant to decomposition than for example cellulose
• Lignin is a chemical precursor of coal, lignin being transformed in a natural carbonisation process by the loss of oxygen from said aromatic rings first to peat and then to a low-grade coal, lignite.
• lignin is a by-product in the production of cellulose, whereas lignite is dug out in quarries or mines. Lignite contains a lot of plant material and thereby also much humi ⁇ acid. Lignosulphonate is produced chemically by sulphonation of lignin, chromium often being added for purification-technical purposes.
• lignite In the utilization of either lignin or lignite, or lignosulphonate in the above-mentioned precipitating chemical, and as a substitute for sodium polyphosphate, and for the purification of hydrocarbon-bearing water according to the present invention, lignite exhibited a better degree of purification than the two other substances. On the other hand, lignite was not better suited than sodium polyphosphate to achieve an optimum degree of purification with respect to purification of hydrocarbon-bearing water.
• the precipitating chemical is added to the waste liquid in a weight concentration of preferably 0.07-2 grams dry matter per litre of waste liquid, the weight concentration of the precipitating chemical depending on what types of contamination and concentrations thereof that the waste liquid is formed of, among other things.
• the liquid mixture is stirred in a suitable manner to achieve good mixing of the precipitating chemical and waste liquid, preferably for 10-15 minutes or as long as necessary to achieve good blending of them.
• An acid or a base is added to the liquid mixture in an amount sufficient for the chemical acidity of the mixture to reach a pH-value of 4.0 or lower, or a pH-value of 8.0 or more.
• the liquid mixture is stirred and mixed in a suitable manner and sufficiently long, at least 0.5 minutes at 190 revolutions/minute in a so-called jar test, to achieve a good blending thereof.
• the liquid mixture rests and chemical, precipitation occurs in that the waste matter(s), preferably hydrocarbons, flakes and separates from the liquid phase and is then deposited or floated from the liquid mixture.
• Purification of waste liquid by means of the method and precipitating chemical concerned takes place through a precipitation process based on i.a. ionic binding, ion exchange between the components of the precipitating chemical and on coagulation of the contaminants of the waste liquid, so-called locculation.
• Bentonite is a clay material, in this connection preferably of the sodium ontmorillonite type, characterised, like most other clay minerals, by taking a plate-shaped crystal structure, which forms groups of parallel and loosely connected plates.
• Such structural properties and the chemical composition of the clay mineral provide the mineral with a very large and chemically reactive surface area relative to a given mineral volume, which has the effect, among other things, that water is easily adsorbed on the clay plates, and that the clay thereby swells.
• the clay plates exhibit alternating positive and negative. electric charges.
• a polymer on the other hand, is built of one or more basic chemical units, so-called monomers, bonding into long chains and exhibiting negative electric charges.
• a polymer in this connection preferably of the pol erylamide-type, in water together with bentonite, the polymer chains bond to some of the positive charges of the clay plate, which causes clay particles, polymer and water to bond.
• the mixture will be more viscous or, as in the preparation of the precipitating chemical concerned, the mixture will transform into a lump of a dough-like consistency.
• the mixture When sodium polyphosphate is added, the mixture receives phosphate ions of a negative electric charge, said ions, like the polymer chains, being attracted to and bonding with some of the positive electric charges of the clay plates.
• Such electric bonding causes associated charges to be. neutralised, and the clay plates, or in practice aggregates consisting of clay particles, polymer and water, to exhibit negative electric charges.
• Such aggregates with negative electric charges have a mutually repellent effect, so that the aggregates will not adhere together.
• the precipitating chemical in the following referred to as the precipitating chemical
• the precipitating chemical is added to, for example, an emulsion consisting of oily water
• an acid is preferably added to the mixture in amounts sufficient for the pH-value of the mixture to be 4.0 or lower.
• a base can be added to the mixture in amounts sufficient for the pH-value of the mixture to be 8.0 or more.
• the addition of an acid or a base causes the polymer chains of the aggregates of precipitating chemical to be attracted to each other and flocculate. Thereby the aggregates and oil droplets adsorbed on the surfaces of the aggregates also flocculate, so that larger accumulations of such aggregates are formed.
• Such accumulations of aggregates are physically much larger than individual and dispersed aggregates, which results in easy sedimentation, possibly flotation, of such accumulations from the mixture.
• bentonite in such aggregates, and in particular in larger accumulations of such aggregates, is also a factor contributing to quick sedimentation of the accumulations, bentonite also working as a weight material in the accumulations and preventing oil particles, which are normally lighter than the water in which they are emulsified, from rising as a consequence of buoyancy forces.
• a polymer preferably polyacrylamide
• the precipitating chemical is mixed into for example oily water with a pH-value of between 4,0 and 8.0, in which acidity range the polymer will not flocculate.
• oily water initially has a pH-value outside the preferred acidity range
• the precipitating chemical is easy to produce, and the use of the chemical requires little and simple adaptation of equipment. This results in increased user-friendliness and utility, i.a. in purification plants for sewage water and waste water, plants for the purification of hydrocarbon-bearing water on and from boats, oil rigs, fixed and floating installations for the production of oil, and for the purification of hydrocarbon-bearing cuttings.
• the precipitating chemical may possibly also be used with advantage in combination with known purification technique .
• Pig. 1 and. associated Table 1 showing the effect of the stirring time of the chemical on the degree of purification achieved through the use of the precipitating chemical in hydrocarbon-bearing water with an initial pH-value of 6.5;
• Fig. 2 and associated Table 2 showing the effect of the stirring time of the chemical on the degree of purification achieved when the precipitating chemical is used in hydrocarbon-bearing water with an initial pH-value of 9.5;
• Fig. 3 and associated Table 3 showing the achieved degree of purification as a function of chemically activated precipitation with varying pH-values, by the use of the precipitating chemical in hydrocarbon-bearing water;
• Fig. 5 and associated Table 5 summarise results from three experiments, showing an achieved degree of purification as a function of varying amounts of precipitating chemical added to hydrocarbon-bearing water, the sedimentation method being used in two of the experiments, the flotation method being used in one of the experiments; and
• Fig, 6 and associated Table 6 summarising the results from three corresponding experiments, showing the achieved mud volume in per cent as a function of varying amounts of precipitating chemical added to hydrocarbon-bearing water, the sedimentation method concerned being used in two of the experiments, and a flotation method being used in one of the experiments .
• Hydrocarbon-bearing water from a boat was tested after the water had been coarse-treated by means of known flotation and coalescing techniques.
• the pH-value of the water was 6.5, and the water contained a lot of loose particles and gasses that lead to flotation in the samples.
• 10 g complete precipitating chemical corresponding to 0.53 g dry chemical, was added to 900 ml of the hydrocarbon-bearing water and stirred at 190 revolutions/minute in said jar test.
• the precipitation was then activated by adjustment of the pH-value of the water to 2.5,
• the purpose of the experiment was to find out how the stirring time at the admixture of the chemical affected the degree of purification.
• the experiment showed a very good. degree of purification in all tests of the experiment, but also a marginal improvement in the degree of purification by more than 8 minutes' stirring, cf. Fig. 1 and Table 1.
• the precipitating chemical was added to hydrocarbon-bearing water from a purification plant for special waste and stirred at 190 revolutions/minute for 2 minutes in said jar test.
• the water had an acidity of 6.5, and a high content of suspended solid particles, in all experimental tests 20 g of complete precipitating chemical, corresponding to 1.05 g of dry chemical, was added to 900 ml of the hydrocarbon-bearing water.
• a different amount of hydrochloric acid was added in each experimental test, so that the pH-value of the liquid mixture was the variable factor of the experiment.
• the purpose of the experiment was to find out which acidity provided the best degree of purification.
• the experiment showed the best degree of purification by pH-values of about 3.5 or lower, cf. Pig, 3 and Table 3.
• the purpose of the experiment was to vary the amount of precipitating chemical added in the sedimentation method concerned and in a flotation method for subsequent comparison of degree of purification achieved by the two methods of purification, cf. Fig. 5 and Table 5.
• precipitating chemical was added to 800 ml of hydrocarbon- bearing water from a purification plant for special waste and stirred at 190 revolutions/minute for 2 minutes in said jar test.
• chemical precipitation was implemented by maintaining the pH-value of the mixture constant at 2.8.
• the results showed that up to a certain level the degree of purification increased with the amount of precipitating chemical added.
• Optimum degree of purification was also somewhat better by sedimentation, cf. Fig. 5 and Table 5.

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